http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Kelika/tag/holidays/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/Kelika/tag/holidays/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/793088B4-A332-4A37-9809-EED9B2C8A872/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Kelika/">Kelika</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_india_marriage" title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_india_marriage">news.yahoo.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian Muslim couple exchanged wedding vows by telephone after the groom, who lives abroad, said he did not have money to return home to get married, a cleric said on Friday. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Muslim clerics married Irin Biswas, 18, to Safikul Islam, who is employed as a labour supervisor in <SPAN id="lw_1215778516_0" class="yshortcuts">Kuwait</SPAN>.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> The entire village in <SPAN id="lw_1215778516_1" class="yshortcuts">Murshidabad, West Bengal</SPAN>, watched as the clerics put a mobile phone on speaker mode, enabling them to hear the wedding vows.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> "They said qubul (I do) thrice and the marriage was complete," Maulana Alamgir, a cleric who solemnised the marriage said by telephone. He said modern ceremony was not against Islamic laws.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> The bride, in endless interviews to the local media, said she had seen Safikul only once, when he was home for holidays.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> "I have never spoken to him but now I speak to him daily," Irin told reporters.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Safikul is due to meet his wife for the first time in October this year when he eventually comes home for holidays, family members said.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_india_marriageSun, 13 Jul 2008 20:30:50 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8887D826-C3CC-420E-ADE4-DA0F5577FA63/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Kelika/">Kelika</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Gather 'round the Festivus Pole! <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1051" title="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1051">blogs.techrepublic.com.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>On Dec. 18, 1997, the <EM>Seinfeld</EM> episode “The Strike” aired for the first time, introducing the world to the now infamous faux holiday, Festivus. Billed as a counterpoint to the perceived increasing commercialism of Christmas (even though said commercialism is <A target="_blank" href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1012" linkindex="40">vital to the economy</A>), Festivus — the so-called “holiday for the rest of us” — struck a chord with audiences, and real-world celebrations of this fictional festivity have been on the rise ever since.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI>Rather than an exchange of gifts, family members embark on an Airing of Grievances, in which each person explains how the other people present have disappointed him or her this year. This event usually follows the Festivus Dinner, which is often meatloaf or spaghetti with red sauce, rather than turkey, ham, or brisket.</LI></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/holidays/" rel="tag">holidays</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/christmas/" rel="tag">christmas</a></div>http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/geekend/?p=1051Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:16:55 GMT